Hi, welcome back. This is week three of Bass Lessons in the music coach program. This week, we're going to expand on what we were doing last week, and play the order of the bass notes for the A section of the song. But this time in the cycle, the way they actually exist in the song, there's not going to be spaces in between. So the notes again are E, which is open on the E string, G, which is on the third fret of the E string, C, which is on the third fret of the A string, and D, which is on the fifth fret of the A string. And you're going to be working on playing them as whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes.

We're going to introduce one other piece of technique today as well, which is alternating your right hand fingers To go back and forth between the pointer finger and the middle finger. Now the reason why this technique is important is because when you start to play songs that are really fast, there's a limit to how fast you can single stroke on one finger. Eventually, you're going to need to depth double strokes so you can go faster between notes. It also makes it easier to go between strings. Quickly when you're alternating fingers instead of always playing one finger. And another thing that helps especially in the beginning, is until you get calluses on your fingers.

If you're only using one finger, you're going to end up with a blister on just one finger. You spread it out a little bit, your fingers, your one finger won't have so much wear and tear on. The other thing that's going to happen is you're going to end up developing some blisters on the fingers on your left hand. This is again part of learning how to play string instrument it's totally natural. It actually gets less painful, the more the blisters are on your fingers. They start to learn more calluses and blisters, but they start to toughen up the skin.

And they act as a bit of a protection for your finger one of the pieces well, which is because we have an open D string, you can play that instead of playing the fifth fret of the A string. So in our cycle, you can play E, G, C, and then the D string open. Now, one thing to be aware of, anytime you use an open string, it's going to ring for longer than any note that you're going to hold down. So it's all in it'll also tend to be a bit louder. So you have to use a bit of a lighter touch when you're using open strings, as well as strings played on the neck. Excellent work, and we'll see in the practice video